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• How Do You Steal Gas From a Pipeline? To be safe, use a rubber mallet.
  Daniel Engber Dec. 30, 2005
  
• What's in a Plea Agreement? Does the government know what it's getting?
  Daniel Engber Dec. 29, 2005
  
• What Happens on Suicide Watch? How to keep people from killing themselves.
  Daniel Engber Dec. 28, 2005
  
• As the World Turns More Slowly? Why days are getting longer.
  Daniel Engber Dec. 28, 2005
  
• Is It Hard To Steal a Penguin? The motives and methods of zoo theft.
  Daniel Engber Dec. 23, 2005
  
• Do Giant Babies Grow Into Giant Adults? Birth size and its consequences.
  Daniel Engber Dec. 21, 2005
  
• When Did Strikes Become Illegal? And what do Taft, Hartley, Condon, and Wadlin have to do with it?
  Daniel Engber Dec. 20, 2005
  
• What Happens to Bad Scientists? Lock the labs, sequester the notebooks.
  Daniel Engber Dec. 16, 2005
  
• Get Your Hands Off My Medal! How to take gold from an athlete.
  Daniel Engber Dec. 16, 2005
  
• What's the Muslim Satan Like? Has he got a tail?
  Daniel Engber Dec. 14, 2005
  
• How Do You Start a Gang? Get some friends together and claim your turf.
  Daniel Engber Dec. 13, 2005
  
• Why Executions Happen at Midnight Capital punishment and the witching hour.
  Andy Bowers Dec. 13, 2005
  
• What's the "Missing Man" Formation? Your basic fingertip strong right, with a twist.
  Daniel Engber Dec. 9, 2005
  
• If You Shoot a Bomb, Will It Explode? What happens when a bullet hits dynamite.
  Daniel Engber Dec. 8, 2005
  
• How To Replace Tom DeLay A guide to congressional leadership elections.
  Daniel Engber Dec. 6, 2005
  
• Are Sonograms Dangerous? Mr. Cruise, get your hands off that ultrasound machine!
  Daniel Engber Dec. 5, 2005
  
• What's a Louis-Philippe Commode? Hint: It's not a toilet.
  Daniel Engber Dec. 2, 2005
  
• How Does a Governor Grant Clemency? With a signed note.
  Daniel Engber Nov. 30, 2005
  
• How the Building Crumbles Could bird poo have made a chunk of marble fall off the Supreme Court Building?
  Daniel Engber Nov. 29, 2005
  
• How Does Activated Carbon Work? What peach pits and molasses have to do with safe drinking water.
  Daniel Engber Nov. 29, 2005
  
• Laptops at the Airport, Part 2 Do you have to take out your computer at foreign airports?
  Daniel Engber Nov. 23, 2005
  
• What Makes Laptops So Dangerous? Why they get special attention at the airport.
  Daniel Engber Nov. 22, 2005
  
• What's in the Congressional Record? Anything your congressman wants.
  Daniel Engber Nov. 21, 2005
  
• What's a Senior Administration Official? Does the president's personal aide count?
  Daniel Engber Nov. 18, 2005
  
• How To Start Your Own Town Can you name it after yourself?
  Daniel Engber Nov. 17, 2005
  
• What Are Army Field Manuals? How-to guides for interrogation, laser injury prevention, and other useful skills.
  Daniel Engber Nov. 16, 2005
  
• All the Presidents' Papers How do presidential libraries decide which records to release?
  Daniel Engber Nov. 15, 2005
  
• I Want My Oil Yesterday! Why it takes so long to drill in Alaska.
  Daniel Engber Nov. 10, 2005
  
• How Do Legal Teams Work? Have my lawyer call my lawyer.
  Daniel Engber Nov. 9, 2005
  
• How To Tornado-Proof Your Mobile Home First, tie down your water heater.
  Torie Bosch Nov. 8, 2005
  
• So, You Wanna Torch a Peugeot? How French hooligans set cars on fire.
  Daniel Engber Nov. 7, 2005
  
• Does That F-16 Come With a Warranty? What happens if the U.S. government sells you a lemon.
  Daniel Engber Nov. 4, 2005
  
• The XXI Club What's the history of closed sessions in the Senate?
  Daniel Engber Nov. 2, 2005
  
• How Do Church Trials Work? Do pastors get jury duty?
  Daniel Engber Nov. 1, 2005
  
• How Many Ways Can You Say "Lie"? The difference between perjury, false statements, and obstruction of justice.
  Daniel Engber Oct. 31, 2005
  
• Does Patrick Fitzgerald Get Two Salaries? He has two jobs.
  Daniel Engber Oct. 28, 2005
  
• To Cull a Mockingbird How they kill birds infected with avian flu.
  Daniel Engber Oct. 27, 2005
  
• X Marks the Baseball Team Why the White Sox aren't the White Socks.
  Daniel Engber Oct. 25, 2005
  
• How Do You Fire a New York Times reporter? Could Judy Miller get the ax?
  Daniel Engber Oct. 25, 2005
  
• What's the Deal With Tom DeLay's Mug Shot? Why doesn't it have numbers on it?
  Keelin McDonell Oct. 21, 2005
  
• Stop That Ship! How do you make an arrest at sea?
  Daniel Engber Oct. 20, 2005
  
• So, You Want To Be a Weatherman? Start working on your audition tape.
  Daniel Engber Oct. 19, 2005
  
• What's an Induced Coma? How to mend a swollen head.
  Daniel Engber Oct. 18, 2005
  
• Do Aspens Turn in Clusters? How much does Scooter Libby really know about trees?
  Daniel Engber Oct. 17, 2005
  
• What Happens When a City Goes Bankrupt? You stay solvent, San Diego.
  Daniel Engber Oct. 14, 2005
  
• How Do You Steal a Plane? Open the door and get in.
  Daniel Engber Oct. 13, 2005
  
• What's 3 Feet Tall With a Small Brain and No Chin? How the tiny island people got that way.
  Daniel Engber Oct. 12, 2005
  
• Who's That Guy in the Police Lineup? It could be a crook, an office worker, or a tourist.
  Telis Demos Oct. 11, 2005
  
• So, You Want to Be a Beer Vendor … How concessionaires make a living.
  Daniel Engber Oct. 7, 2005
  
• How Does Assisted Suicide Work? A guide to "Death With Dignity" in Oregon.
  Daniel Engber Oct. 6, 2005
  
• How Do They Harvest Caviar? They suck it through a straw.
  Daniel Engber Oct. 4, 2005
  
• A Space Tourist's Itinerary Check on the stem cells, call Nelson Mandela …
  Daniel Engber Oct. 3, 2005
  
• What's a Runaway Grand Jury? Is that what sank Tom DeLay?
  Daniel Engber Sept. 30, 2005
  
• What's With Those Spanish Enclaves in North Africa? And what's so special about Parsley Island?
  Daniel Engber Sept. 29, 2005
  
• Giant Squid, Where Are You? If they're so big, why can't we find them?
  Daniel Engber Sept. 28, 2005
  
• Can I Cut Off My Electronic Monitoring Bracelet? You bet I can!
  Daniel Engber Sept. 27, 2005
  
• What's Causing All the Traffic in Houston? Evacuation gridlock and what to do about it.
  Daniel Engber Sept. 23, 2005
  
• How Do You Dump Fuel From a Plane? Just turn on your fuel dumping system.
  Daniel Engber Sept. 22, 2005
  
• What's So Great About Ice? Why they bought 200 million pounds of it for Katrina victims.
  Daniel Engber Sept. 20, 2005
  
• The Reason for the Season Why do television shows premiere in September?
  Daniel Engber Sept. 19, 2005
  
• Why Do Airlines Go Bankrupt? Delta can't keep up with JetBlue.
  Daniel Engber Sept. 15, 2005
  
• Dead Man's Float Why are bodies in the water always facedown?
  Daniel Engber Sept. 14, 2005
  
• How Do You Handle an FBI Informant? If you pay him, get a receipt.
  Daniel Engber Sept. 13, 2005
  
• Louisiana's Napoleon Complex The French influence on Pelican state jurisprudence.
  Daniel Engber Sept. 12, 2005
  
• Why Do People in New Orleans Talk That Way? The origins of the accent.
  Jesse Sheidlower Sept. 8, 2005
  
• Lying in State vs. Lying in Repose What's the difference?
  Daniel Engber Sept. 7, 2005
  
• Could Drinking Floodwater Save Your Life? Dehydration vs. contamination.
  Daniel Engber Sept. 7, 2005
  
• Why New Orleans Cell Phones Aren't Working You might want to change your number.
  Daniel Engber Sept. 6, 2005
  
• Homeless How do you pay for a house that no longer exists?
  Avi Zenilman Sept. 2, 2005
  
• How Do They Estimate Hurricane Damage? Why do the Katrina numbers vary all the way from $25 billion to $100 billion?
  Daniel Engber Sept. 2, 2005
  
• Could Drinking Floodwater Save Your Life? Dehydration vs. contamination.
  Daniel Engber Sept. 2, 2005
  
• What Is Martial Law? And is New Orleans under it?
  Keelin McDonell Sept. 2, 2005
  
• The Oil Price Roundup Slate readers ask about rising fuel costs.
  Daniel Engber Sept. 1, 2005
  
• What Happens to Flooded Houses? Can their owners ever move back in?
  Daniel Engber Aug. 31, 2005
  
• How Do You Move a Cemetery? Also, what happens when a grave gets flooded?
  Daniel Engber Aug. 30, 2005
  
• How Do You Measure Sea Level? Plus, how did New Orleans get below sea level in the first place?
  Daniel Engber Aug. 29, 2005
  
• The Secret Lives of Retired Judges Why Brad and Jennifer hired one to handle their divorce.
  Daniel Engber Aug. 24, 2005
  
• What Are Supernotes? The best fake money that money can buy.
  Daniel Engber Aug. 23, 2005
  
• What's Comparable Worth? Why John Roberts railed against "equal pay for equal value."
  Daniel Engber Aug. 22, 2005
  
• Isn't One Life Sentence Enough? Why the BTK killer got 10.
  Daniel Engber Aug. 19, 2005
  
• What Are Those Cubes on the Gaza Settlers' Heads? Tefillin 101.
  Daniel Engber Aug. 18, 2005
  
• So Many Greek Shipping Magnates … Where do they all come from?
  Daniel Engber Aug. 17, 2005
  
• How Wildfires Get Their Names The story of Burnt Bread and Dirty Face.
  Daniel Engber Aug. 15, 2005
  
• What Does Fat Taste Like? Can you even taste it at all?
  Daniel Engber Aug. 12, 2005
  
• How To Make an Avian-Flu Vaccine First, make the virus bird-safe.
  Keelin McDonell Aug. 10, 2005
  
• How Does the Space Shuttle Fly Home? On the back of a jumbo jet.
  Felix Gillette Aug. 10, 2005
  
• When Doves Fly Away What happens to all those birds they release?
  Daniel Engber Aug. 8, 2005
  
• How Japan's Postal Service Got $3 Trillion It wasn't by selling trillions of stamps.
  Daniel Engber Aug. 5, 2005
  
• They Know How the Dead Bird Sings Identifying extinct bird calls.
  Daniel Engber Aug. 4, 2005
  
• The Waking of the President Who decides when to rouse the commander in chief?
  Daniel Engber Aug. 3, 2005
  
• You Call That a Planet? How astronomers decide whether a celestial body measures up.
  Megan O'Connor Aug. 2, 2005
  
• How Do You Seal a Nuclear Plant? With stickers, metal disks, and fiber optics.
  Daniel Engber Aug. 1, 2005
  
• Can a Dead Man Walk? How about half of a dead man?
  Daniel Engber July 29, 2005
  
• Why Are Power Lines So Deadly? Aren't they insulated?
  Daniel Engber July 28, 2005
  
• How Does the Heat Index Work? Pretty well, if you're 5-feet-7.
  Daniel Engber July 27, 2005
  
• Spring Forward, Cut Back? Does daylight-saving time really save energy?
  Daniel Engber July 26, 2005
  
• Are Subway Searches Legal? The rules for searching bags.
  Daniel Engber July 22, 2005
  
• What Do Bombs Smell Like? And how do they train dogs to sniff them out?
  Megan O'Connor July 21, 2005
  
• How Do Mock Trials Work? Can your mock objection be mock overruled?
  Daniel Engber July 20, 2005
  
• What's the Deal With "Cat Ladies"? Are there "cat gentlemen," too?
  Daniel Engber July 19, 2005
  
• You Say CLE-ment, I Say cle-MENT How to pronounce the potential Supreme Court nominee's name.
  Andy Bowers July 19, 2005
  
• What's a Launch Window? How NASA decides when it's OK to take off.
  Daniel Engber July 18, 2005
  
• How Do Video Games Get Rated? Warning: contains cartoon violence and partial nudity.
  Daniel Engber July 15, 2005
  
• Which Pedophiles Strike Again? Check the actuarial tables.
  Daniel Engber July 14, 2005
  
• How Do Cycling Teams Work? What Lance Armstrong's "domestiques" do.
  Daniel Engber July 13, 2005
  
• What Catholics Think of Evolution They don't not believe in it.
  Keelin McDonell July 12, 2005
  
• Who Owns Judith Miller's Notes? Can her bosses turn them over to the feds?
  Daniel Engber July 8, 2005
  
• Who Planted the Bombs? How to verify a terrorist group's claim of responsibility.
  Daniel Engber July 7, 2005
  
• Oops, I Made an Oil Spill … What should I do?
  Daniel Engber July 5, 2005
  
• Villa-Ruh … What? How do you pronounce the new L.A. mayor's name?
  Andy Bowers July 1, 2005
  
• How To Pick a Supreme Court Justice Read everything they've written, then call the FBI.
  Daniel Engber July 1, 2005
  
• When One Company Buys Another ... Who's better off?
  Daniel Engber June 30, 2005
  
• Can You Ever Really Erase a Computer File? What if you use Evidence Eliminator?
  Daniel Engber June 29, 2005
  
• Who Speaks for Piglet? What happens when a cartoon character loses its voice.
  Daniel Engber June 28, 2005
  
• How Do Sharks Find Their Prey? And is it a good idea to punch one in the face?
  Daniel Engber June 27, 2005
  
• Scientologists vs. Psychiatrists Why they don't get along.
  Daniel Engber June 24, 2005
  
• What's a "Simulated" Baseball Game? Fantasy baseball, for real.
  Daniel Engber June 22, 2005
  
• The American University in Cairo? What makes a foreign university "American"?
  Daniel Engber June 20, 2005
  
• What's So Great About Tygacil? Is it really a new class of antibiotic?
  Daniel Engber June 17, 2005
  
• Where Do Red Tides Come From? And will the algae wreck my lobster bisque?
  Keelin McDonell June 16, 2005
  
• Can We Trust Track & Field Records? How accurate are they?
  Daniel Engber June 15, 2005
  
• When Congress Says It's Sorry How lawmakers apologize.
  Daniel Engber June 14, 2005
  
• Can This Gamecock Be Saved? The fate of fighting birds.
  Daniel Engber June 13, 2005
  
• Do Records in Boxing Mean Anything? It seems like no one ever loses.
  Daniel Engber June 10, 2005
  
• How Good Are Hurricane Forecasts? Last year, they blew.
  Daniel Engber June 9, 2005
  
• Is Cat Litter Really Radioactive? And how do we detect nuclear materials at the border?
  Daniel Engber June 8, 2005
  
• What's the FBI Doing in Aruba? Can the bureau snoop around overseas?
  Daniel Engber June 6, 2005
  
• How Do the Paparazzi Sell Their Pics? An introduction to the celebrity photo game.
  Daniel Engber June 3, 2005
  
• What Are the Rules of Bollywood? Is there really no kissing allowed?
  Daniel Engber June 2, 2005
  
• How Do Space Pictures Get So Pretty? Photoshop, of course.
  Daniel Engber June 1, 2005
  
• You've Got One of Those Four-Hour Erections ... Now what?
  Daniel Engber May 31, 2005
  
• What Does the Bird Flu Mean For the Birds? Could they have a pandemic, too?
  Daniel Engber May 27, 2005
  
• Do Governments Take Checks? How the United States gives foreign aid.
  Daniel Engber May 26, 2005
  
• What's That Thingy Court Reporters Type On? How does it work?
  Daniel Engber May 25, 2005
  
• If You Can't Grow Poppies … Where do poppy seeds come from?
  Daniel Engber May 24, 2005
  
• How Come They Divert Airplanes? Why not check the No-Fly List before the plane takes off?
  Keelin McDonell May 20, 2005
  
• What Can Female Soldiers Do? A primer on the latest wrangling over women in the military.
  Daniel Engber May 19, 2005
  
• Does North Korea Need To Test Its Nukes? Only if they're really small.
  Daniel Engber May 18, 2005
  
• Who Regulates Our Nation's Amusement Parks? And what's the "roller coaster loophole"?
  Daniel Engber May 17, 2005
  
• What Do Election Observers Do? How Jimmy Carter really spends his time.
  Daniel Engber May 16, 2005
  
• A Prison for One? When solitary confinement really means solitary confinement.
  Daniel Engber May 12, 2005
  
• Can the Russians Control the Weather? How cloud seeding works.
  Daniel Engber May 11, 2005
  
• Creationism vs. Intelligent Design Is there a difference?
  Daniel Engber May 10, 2005
  
• Where Do Mob Nicknames Come From? The origins of "Tony the Ant," "Big Tuna," and "Joey the Clown."
  Daniel Engber May 9, 2005
  
• Can the Police Commandeer Your Car? What else could they ask you to do?
  Daniel Engber May 6, 2005
  
• Why Can't Lynndie Plead Guilty? She swears she did it.
  Daniel Engber May 5, 2005
  
• Do Countries Really "Point" Missiles At Each Other? How does it work?
  Daniel Engber May 4, 2005
  
• When Did We Get "Cold Feet"? The Germans had 'em first!
  Daniel Engber May 3, 2005
  
• When Do They Call an Animal Extinct? They used to wait 50 years.
  Daniel Engber May 2, 2005
  
• Middle-School Girls on the Juice? How many are there really?
  Daniel Engber April 29, 2005
  
• No Animals Were Harmed...? The people looking out for horses, dogs, and bugs in the movies say so.
  Daniel Engber April 27, 2005
  
• Where Satellites Go When They Die To a higher plane.
  Daniel Engber April 26, 2005
  
• Why Take Asylum in Brazil? I hear Panama is nice.
  Daniel Engber April 25, 2005
  
• Does the FBI Have Your Fingerprints? Find out for 18 bucks.
  Daniel Engber April 22, 2005
  
• Markets vs. Exchanges What's the difference?
  Daniel Engber April 21, 2005
  
• Who Counts the World's Icebergs? And why don't they count the "bergy bits"?
  Daniel Engber April 20, 2005
  
• How Much For That Monkey? Primates à la carte.
  Daniel Engber April 19, 2005
  
• How To Read a Dirty Papyrus First, call NASA.
  Daniel Engber April 19, 2005
  
• Contact Lenses You Wear to Bed? How they fix your eyes while you sleep.
  Daniel Engber April 15, 2005
  
• Whose Finger Is in My Chili? What digit detectives can learn from a tip.
  Daniel Engber April 14, 2005
  
• Can We Get Sucked Out of Airplanes? How explosive decompression works.
  Daniel Engber April 13, 2005
  
• When Did the Blind Get a Tax Break? World War II, of course.
  Daniel Engber April 12, 2005
  
• Why Not Quit the Directors Guild? What Robert Rodriguez can and can't do.
  Daniel Engber April 8, 2005
  
• Why Didn't They Embalm the Pope? He's been dead for almost a week. Hmmm.
  Daniel Engber April 7, 2005
  
• Is the Conclave Held in Latin? Plus, how will the new pope pick a name?
  Daniel Engber April 6, 2005
  
• Can I Help With the Terrorism Drill? I wanna be a victim!
  Daniel Engber April 5, 2005
  
• What Is a Body Wrap? No, not the spa treatment. The police tool.
  Daniel Engber April 5, 2005
  
• Cheerleaders in Baseball? Not in my day!
  Daniel Engber April 2, 2005
  
• What's With All Those Intelligence Commissions? How to tell them apart.
  Daniel Engber April 1, 2005
  
• Dead Man, No Talking? Can the Supreme Court still rule on Johnnie Cochran's freedom-of-speech case?
  Daniel Engber March 31, 2005
  
• Marburg vs. Ebola Ebola wins.
  Daniel Engber March 29, 2005
  
• How Do You Say "Kyrgyzstan"? Hint: It's a hard "g."
  Daniel Engber March 26, 2005
  
• Does Oil Really Come in Barrels? Not anymore.
  Daniel Engber March 24, 2005
  
• How Do Feeding Tubes Work? The ins and outs of percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy.
  Daniel Engber March 23, 2005
  
• What Do Pirates Want From Us? Why they've gotten into the kidnapping business.
  Daniel Engber March 22, 2005
  
• The Terri Schiavo Roundup Who's paying for her care, how long can she live without food, and what's with the bill written just for her?
  Daniel Engber March 19, 2005
  
• How To Become a Legend of Rock On getting into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
  Daniel Engber March 18, 2005
  
• How Do You Find Underground Oil? First, get a vibrating truck.
  Daniel Engber March 18, 2005
  
• Why Is the National Guard Hunting Shrimp? What military biologists do.
  Daniel Engber March 16, 2005
  
• Do You Have to Testify Before Congress? What happens if you refuse.
  Daniel Engber March 15, 2005
  
• Should I Melt My Gold Nuggets? Or sell them whole?
  Daniel Engber March 11, 2005
  
• Why Is Captive Breeding So Hard? Don't animals like to breed?
  Daniel Engber March 10, 2005
  
• What's With All the Martyrs' Squares? Why they're all over the Middle East.
  Daniel Engber March 10, 2005
  
• How Much Is Your Stolen Music Worth? Probably more than you think.
  Daniel Engber March 8, 2005
  
• If Bono Ran the World Bank ... What the job entails.
  Daniel Engber March 7, 2005
  
• How Do Shrinks Measure Maturity? With questionnaires, brain scans, and video games.
  Daniel Engber March 4, 2005
  
• What Martha Really Ate in Prison The incarceration diet explained.
  Daniel Engber March 4, 2005
  
• Who Are the Druses, Anyway? A primer.
  Daniel Engber March 2, 2005
  
• How To Race Around the World Which way should you go?
  Daniel Engber March 1, 2005
  
• Goo That Destroys Boulders? How it works.
  Daniel Engber Feb. 28, 2005
  
• How To Teach an Ape To Talk Cross-species communication 101.
  Daniel Engber Feb. 25, 2005
  
• Can Your Phone Get a Virus? How cell phones get hacked.
  Daniel Engber Feb. 23, 2005
  
• Doctor, Please Reattach My ... How long can you wait before sewing a severed body part back on?
  Daniel Engber Feb. 22, 2005
  
• Has Your Identity Been Stolen? What to do if it happens to you.
  Daniel Engber Feb. 18, 2005
  
• How To Hunt the Clean Boot And why real foxhunters think it's such a drag.
  Daniel Engber Feb. 17, 2005
  
• What About Bob? Judith Miller and Matt Cooper seem to be headed for jail. Why isn't Robert Novak?
  Daniel Engber Feb. 17, 2005
  
• How Come Syria Controls Lebanon? Why the neighbors are calling the shots.
  Daniel Engber Feb. 16, 2005
  
• A New Strain of HIV? How many kinds are out there?
  Daniel Engber Feb. 15, 2005
  
• What Is a Princess Consort? No one knows. Camilla will be the first.
  Daniel Engber Feb. 11, 2005
  
• Want To Know How Old That Cow Is? First, look at its teeth.
  Daniel Engber Feb. 11, 2005
  
• Why Some Feasts Are Movable How come Lent moves around while Christmas stays put?
  Daniel Engber Feb. 10, 2005
  
• How Nickels Got So Heavy Why stealing 45,000 pounds of them is a bad deal.
  Daniel Engber Feb. 9, 2005
  
• What Is Death Row Syndrome? And who came up with it?
  David Wallace-Wells Feb. 1, 2005
  
• How Islam Got to the Philippines And what the Sultan of Sulu has to do with it.
  Brendan I. Koerner Jan. 28, 2005
  
• Can Mouse Poison Kill You? How much can humans ingest without dying?
  Brendan I. Koerner Jan. 27, 2005
  
• How Much for That Domain? Who sells .net? To whom? And why does it matter?
  Bidisha Banerjee Jan. 24, 2005
  
• Osama, Call Your Agent! Is Doubleday violating Bin Laden's copyright?
  Brendan I. Koerner Jan. 21, 2005
  
• Why "Hail to the Chief"? How it became the presidential song.
  Andy Bowers Jan. 20, 2005
  
• How They Measure Wind Chill It's all about how thick your skin is.
  Sam Schechner Jan. 19, 2005
  
• How Embarrass, Minn., Got Its Name And what lumber's got to do with it.
  Brendan I. Koerner Jan. 18, 2005
  
• How To Count Right Whales First, photograph their calluses.
  Brendan I. Koerner Jan. 13, 2005
  
• Prisoners Are Fighting Mudslides? What else do inmate work crews do?
  Daniel Engber Jan. 13, 2005
  
• Do Commandos Go Commando? Soldiers and their skivvies.
  Daniel Engber Jan. 10, 2005
  
• Army Reserve vs. National Guard What's the difference, anyway?
  Eric Umansky Jan. 7, 2005